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Here’s an example of a termination letter that went out earlier in the week to a Parks and Recreation employee — I understand they are laying off some rangers downstate. We are hearing that the least senior state workers, those who don’t have bumping or retreat rights, are getting notified in the workplace and through […] More »

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First it was CSEA, now it’s PEF weighing in on official layoff notices going to the nearly 900 state employees who are being told today that they’ll be out of work after Dec. 31. Reports from the state are coming in slowly but the notices, we’re hearing are indeed being given to state employees. Here’s […] More »

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Today is a frightening day for about 900 state employees. It’s three weeks before December 31, and the state will issue layoff notices to the employees , CSEA President Danny Donohue put out a statement today to solemnly mark the occasion, calling the planned layoffs “nothing but political spite for CSEA” and noting that laying […] More »

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According to a Quinnipiac poll of New York state voters released today, the taxpayers of New York would rather see furloughs or wage freezes for state workers than layoffs or pension cuts. The Quinnipiac poll adds a different variable – they ask participants whether or not they have a union member in their household. (Which […] More »

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CSEA has an understandable take on Governor Paterson’s $16.7 million in lame-duck spending that we reported earlier today: perhaps that money could have been used to avoid layoffs of state employees. Notes union president Danny Donohue: “The governor should think long and hard about whether he wants to end his administration with 900 employees following […] More »

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The Kingston Daily Freeman reports that more than 200 supporters showed up Monday at a rally for the employees of Belleayre Mountain Ski Resort. 48 of the resort’s 58 year-round employees received pre-layoff notices a few weeks ago, and their year-round jobs will be cut to lower-paying seasonal positions. The rally was intended to remind […] More »

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This ran in the TU on Thanksgiving Day, and I wanted to make sure that State Worker readers didn’t miss it in various holiday shuffles. The CSEA local at the Tryon Residential Center for Boys wants the public to know that the facility wasn’t empty at the time of Gov.-elect Cuomo’s visit, and that administrators […] More »

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Gov. David Paterson was on WAMC’s Roundtable for an hour-long discussion, and discussed the resistance to lay offs he faced within his own administration. “We had a parks commissioner who was openly advocating and criticizing the executive branch for making those cuts, and it was the middle of the spring last year and I had […] More »

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Gov. David Paterson took his war of words a little further this morning, saying public employee unions “lied” by putting out a press release Monday suggesting the state was hiring new workers. Government officials said they promoted several people, but have not made any new hires. “The public employee unions lied,” Paterson said on WOR. […] More »

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Gov. David Paterson launched another salvo against public employee unions, responding to a stir they caused yesterday about the DEC promoting people amid a plan for 898 layoffs. “So, we don’t nee to play any games or have any distractions. This is the reality: There didn’t have to be any layoffs at all,” Paterson said […] More »

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This just in from the Civil Service Employees Association: the Department of Environmental Conservation has hired promoted 36 top level people since July, including 18 with six-figure salaries. Update: DEC Spokesman Yancey Roy noted that the people haven’t been hired by the agency, instead they have been promoted into jobs that had been vacated. We […] More »

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Here’s the latest from the Department of Environmental Conservation’s layoff/downsizing saga: They’re doing away with what, I’m told, is colloquially known as the agency’s CSI unit, which investigates environmental crimes. The DEC’s investigators probably spend more time in jeans and hip waders than the fictional forensic Las Vegas cops in the CBS show, but insiders […] More »

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53% of New York voters questioned in a recent Siena poll stated that they’re against state worker layoffs. 40% were in favor of them.53% of New York residents questioned in the most recent Siena poll stated that they’re against state worker layoffs. 40% were in favor of them – 8% had no opinion. More »

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A reader passed along this memo from the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles announcing that layoff letters will soon go out at that agency. Governor Paterson has stated that a large number of the planned layoffs will be at DMV. Are lines like these after DMV layoffs in California in 2008 in our future? More »

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The State Museum will close on Sundays, according to a memo from New York Operations Officer Valerie Grey. The memo — sent by Grey today and obtained by the Times Union — says a total of 46 full-time employees will be laid off at the end of the year. Since 2008, the State Education Department […] More »

Sigh: Wow, really? I’m sure it will be a wonderful revenue generator…. perhaps! I’d love to see one...

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